Chapter 64: The Five Emperors Rule the World (Part II)
In the early days of Tang Yao's reign, the astronomical calendar was still very imperfect, and the people often delayed the agricultural time, so Yao ordered the Xi and He clans to follow the will of God, according to the appearance of the sun and the moon, and the ranking of the stars, to formulate a calendar, and carefully teach the people to engage in the production of the season. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Xi and the two tribes are in charge of astronomy, according to the movement of the sun, moon and stars and other celestial phenomena and natural phenology to deduce the time and day, determine the four seasons, and take the moon cycle as a month, the sun cycle as a year, and a year as 366 days, which is the earliest recorded calendar in China, laying the foundation of China's lunar calendar.
There are 366 days in a year, and the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter are corrected by placing leap months.
Di Yao also sincerely admonished the hundred officials to abide by their duties and handle everything properly, so under such governance, the human race once again ushered in a wave of high development, and at this time, Di Yao has been in power for more than 70 years, and he feels that his merits are complete, so he wants to find a great sage to take over the position of the co-master of the human race.
So, Di Yao summoned the ministers and asked them who could take over the position of the co-lord of the human race. ”
Di Yao said disdainfully: "Hmph! Dan Zhu, his people are stupid and vicious, and they are not properly used. When everyone heard this, they were all silent, Dan Zhu was Di Yao's most beloved son, and now Di Yao was excluded, and everyone suddenly lost their recommendation.
After a moment of silence, everyone began to discuss the candidates again, and in the end, everyone finally reached a consensus, and everyone said: "His Majesty the Holy Emperor Xuanyuan has a grandson named Kun, this person has a wide range of knowledge, extraordinary skills, and is praised by everyone in the world, enough to take on this important responsibility. ”
When Di Yao heard this, he lowered his head and thought for a while, and was just about to agree, when his heart suddenly moved, only to see Di Yao's eyes roll, and then stroked his beard and said: "This person is indeed good, but you still recommend a few more, don't make mistakes." ”
As soon as everyone heard this, they felt the truth deeply, and they began to discuss it again, and suddenly, the minister Siyue said to Yao: "There is a person named Yu Shun who lives among the people, and his virtue is very good. I just don't know if he can be qualified for the position of co-master. ”
Di Yao said: "Well, I have also heard of this person, but I don't know how, you tell me carefully." Siyue replied, "Shun lives in a family environment of 'stubborn father, arrogant mother, and proud', his father is blind and has a bad heart, his stepmother is two-faced and stabbed, and his younger brother is unruly.
However, Shun does not lose his son to his parents, is very filial, and his younger brother is very friendly, many years like a day, without the slightest slack, Shun when the family wants to harm him, timely escape, a little better, immediately return to them, as much as possible to help, such an unfortunate life, such a bad environment, but Shun can get along with his family, do his filial piety, and govern the family well, so that they will not go to evil. ”
Yao said, "Then I'll try him first!" So Emperor Yao married his two daughters, Empress E and Nuying, to Shun, and observed his virtues from the two daughters to see if he could take care of the house, and Shun asked them to lower their noble hearts and live in their homes by the Fu River, and obey the way of being a woman.
The two daughters are very devoted to Shun, abide by the women's way, Shun makes pottery, can drive the people around to engage seriously, keep improving, put an end to the phenomenon of shoddy manufacturing, where he goes, people are willing to follow, so one year and live in Chengju (gathering that is, the village), two years into Yi, three years Chengdu (four counties for the capital).
Yao was very happy to learn of these circumstances, and gave Shun a silk cloth (fine kudzu cloth clothes) and a qin, gave cattle and sheep, and built a barn for him, but he still wanted to kill him, conspired with his family, and murdered Shun many times, but Shun was always like God's blessing, and was able to miraculously come back to life, even so, Shun still treated his parents as before, loved his brothers, and was more respectful.
In this way, after trying Shun's conduct, Yao began to let Shun come into contact with government affairs, Yao asked Shun to try out the position of Situ, responsible for the implementation of moral education, Shun taught his subjects to use the "five codes", that is, father's righteousness, mother's kindness, brother and friend, brother Gong, and son filial piety These five virtues guide their behavior, and the subjects are willing to listen to his teachings and generally act in accordance with the "Five Codes".
Yao also asked Shun to be in charge of hundreds of officials and handle government affairs, and all the officials obeyed Shun's command, and all of them were revitalized, none of them were deserted, and they appeared to be particularly orderly and disorderly.
Yao also let Shun in the four gates of the Ming Hall, responsible for receiving the princes who came to see the Quartet, Shun and the princes got along very well, but also made the princes are harmonious and friendly, and the princes and guests from afar respected him.
In the end, Yao asked Shun to go alone to the forest at the foot of the mountain and endure the test of nature. Shun in the storm and thunderstorm, can not lose his way, still walking, showing a strong ability to live, after many tests, Yao saw Shun's extraordinary talent and noble character, Shun finally got Yao's recognition, so Di Yao ordered people to prepare, the position of the co-owner to Shun.
During the reign of Di Yao, there was no less propaganda of Western religion, but the effect was not very good, long before the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, people had begun to preach in the human race, and Western religion was limited to the West, although there was Di Yao's propaganda, but the Western religion was too remote compared to the human race, but fortunately, there were still some people who believed in Western religion, which also made Western religion flourish in the East.
And Shun's master is the Holy Mother of Jin Ling, and the big disciple of the Interception Sect, Duobao Daoren, was arranged in the last master of the human emperor, after Shun ascended the position of the co-master of the human race, Our Lady of Jin Ling naturally accompanied him, solved problems for him, and taught him the method of cultivation.
First, by observing the Big Dipper, Emperor Shun investigated whether the movement of the sun, moon and the five stars of metal, wood, water, fire and earth was abnormal, and then held a temporary ritual to sacrifice to the saints, and used the ritual of putting the sacrifices on the fire to sacrifice the four times of heaven and earth, and used the ritual of remote sacrifice to worship the famous mountains and rivers, and generally sacrificed to the gods of all walks of life.
He collected the five kinds of jade talisman letters held by the marquis of the fifth rank of the prince and the male marquis, Huan Gui, Xin Gui, Bow Gui, Gu Bi, and Pu Bi, chose a good month and auspicious day, summoned the four mountains and the state pastors, and awarded them, Shun went to the east to inspect, when he arrived at Mount Tai, he sacrificed Dongyue with the ritual of burning firewood, and sacrificed the famous mountains and rivers in various places with the ritual of remote sacrifice.
Then, he summoned the princes of the East, coordinated and corrected the four solar terms, the size of the moon, and the A and B of the sun, unified the music and the standards of length, capacity, and weight, and cultivated the five kinds of etiquette of Mingji, fierce, bin, army, and jia, and stipulated that the princes should use five kinds of guibi and three kinds of colored silk, and the emperor should use two kinds of animals, lamb and wild goose, and the scholars should use dead pheasants as gifts for the court, and the five kinds of guibi should still be returned to the princes after the court meeting ceremony is completed.
Shun generally stated to the princes the way of governing the country, clearly examined according to the merits, and gave chariots and horses clothes according to merit, Shun began to divide the world into twelve states, dredged rivers, prescribed that the law should be enforced according to normal punishments, and the five punishments of piercing, cutting off noses, cutting off feet, castration, and killing heads were reduced by the method of exile, and the punishment was inflicted with whips in government affairs, and punishments were punished with precepts in school education.
Those who have caused negligence due to disasters shall be pardoned; those who persist in doing evil and persist in harming must be punished; at this time, Sanmiao has repeatedly made trouble in the Jiangjiang and Huai valleys and in the Jingzhou area, and at this time Shun has made an inspection, so he exiled the donkey to Chongshan in order to change the customs of the Nanban, and Sanmiao was relocated to Sanwei Mountain in order to change the customs of Xirong, and Shun's actions were accepted by the world.
However, there are unforeseen storms and clouds in the sky, Shun reigned in the late period, torrential rain and floods occurred in the flood, and the disaster is getting more and more serious, this time it is not the dragon clan in the wind and waves, but the real natural disaster, Shun is not very proficient in this way, as a last resort, he handed over the task of water control to another great sage of the human race, Kun.
The father of this Kun is Emperor Zhuan, and the father of Zhuan is Changyi, and Changyi's father is the Yellow Emperor. Kun was originally a famous Terran and a powerful candidate for the throne of the Human Emperor, but unfortunately they all became ministers to Zhi, and as a result, after Di Yao became the co-leader of the Terran Race, he was deposed.
Since receiving the task of controlling the water, he has worked hard and worked hard, but no matter how strong Kun is, how can he stop this unparalleled flood with the strength of one person, and even if the human race gathers together to work together, he can't withstand this terrible natural disaster.
However, it is still incumbent on this matter, after getting the order of Emperor Shun, Kun packed up his bags and went to control the water with everyone, and Kun adopted the method of blocking, using Nuwa Niangniang to stay in the rest of the human race after creating people, making dikes and mountains to force the Yellow River to return to its place, and blocking the river to store water, so that the people's agriculture has a source of irrigation.
Ten years later, the flood broke out again, and it was even more ferocious than before.
After the death of Kun, a baby was born in the corpse, which was saved by the big disciple Duobao Daoren, Duobao handed Yu over to be raised by Kun's wife, and Yu knew about his father, determined to be ashamed of his father and pacify the flood, so he ran around to find a good way to control the water.